At an airfield/1.5 mi away/1,007 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Port Edwards until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Port Edwards is 47° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:56 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Port Edwards, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Central Waters North (WI), 22 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.15 in in the last 24 hours, 1.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Port Edwards, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Port Edwards, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/1.5 mi away/1,007 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3989EW3989
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/1,033 ft/61 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Nekoosa-6Se Dnr AutomatedNKAW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.9 mi away/1,004 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Pittsville - STH 13 @ STH 80PIVW3
Beside a road/15.2 mi away/1,041 ft/69 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/25.1 mi away/933 ft/39 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Port Edwards 1.4 NWWI-WD-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,002 ft/30 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port EdwardsNEPW3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/981 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.5 mi from Port Edwards, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:29 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 45.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Wisconsin Rapids, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.